With an estimated one in 100 people affected by gluten intolerance, campaigners want the NHS to continue providing staple foods like bread and pasta.
Historically, camels were central to the production and reproduction of Sahrawi nomadic society, providing staple food, means of transport and warfare, means of exchange and the basis of power and prestige.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has gone a long way towards securing the nutrition needs of Zaatari's residents, providing staple grains as well as cash vouchers that allow for more flexible food choices.
Botanical research has diverse applications in providing staple foods and textiles, in modern horticulture, agriculture and forestry, plant propagation, breeding and genetic modification, in the synthesis of chemicals and raw materials for construction and energy production, in environmental management, and the maintenance of biodiversity.
The agency provides staples and other services in Gaza for 815,000 Palestinian refugees and their descendants, nearly half the population of the Hamas-run enclave.
Anatolia is the homeland of many plants that have been cultivated for food since the advent of agriculture, and the wild ancestors of many plants that now provide staples for mankind still grow in Turkey.
The California WIC program, which provides staple foods like milk, dried beans and peanut butter to 1.48 million low-income Californians, is the largest in the country.
The Oryza rufipogon species complex (ORSC) is the wild progenitor of Asian cultivated rice, O. sativa (Oka 1988; Barbier et al. 1991; Khush 1997), a crop that provides staple food for three billion people (Elert 2014).
are grown in more than a hundred tropical and subtropical countries and provide staple food for hundreds of millions of people.
Moench) is a C4 cereal grain crop that provides staple food for over 500 million people in the semi-arid tropics of Africa and Asia, in addition to being an important source of feed for livestock.
